Official Website for David Nogaki
Your ultimate resource for achieving POWERFUL HEALTH and PEAK PERFORMANCE
COACHING: Fitness | Weight Loss | Health | Injury Rehab | Sports Performance COACH EDUCATION: Certification | Internship | Seminars EXTRAS: Rates | Blogs | Q&A | AE Concepts | Primal Palate
Big East Freshman of the Week!
Congrats to BioKinetic athlete Kimberly McDonough for winning Big East Freshman of the week! Averaging 5pts per game against Georgetown and Temple. Kimberly is a great example of focusing on overall athleticism in her developmental years instead of being a one sport athlete. She only started playing lacrosse in the 8th grade and also ran track. A passion for the game, hard work in the weight room, a positive attitude, upbeat energy, and a supportive and loving family has allowed her to excel at the D1 level as a freshman. I have no doubt she will dominate the league over the coming years and continue to be a great example of maintaining balance while pursuing your athletic goals.
NEGATIVE IONS
Did you ever notice that when you are in an unnatural environment for too long, you start to feel lousy and that when in nature and especially when around water you feel better? The ocean and other sources of flowing and crashing water give off negatively charged electrical particles called ions. These negative ions are healthy. They restore your body’s electrical energy flow and make you feel good. They are plentiful anywhere in nature. Positive ions, on the other hand, exist around man made electronics and machines. They give you that “fried” feeling you get when you are on your computer for too long.
INCREASING HIP EXTENSION WITHOUT INCREASING HIP EXTENSION
Training a pitcher to throw at a higher velocity is one of the more complex challenges in sports performance. There are many factors involved, and many controversial opinions.
BKE APLIED TO SPORT SPECIFIC
At Athlete Engineering, we assess each athlete by breaking down the fundamental needs of their sport and position and compare those needs to the individual’s current condition. Not only do we look at the athlete’s structure and movement, but also their biology and state of consciousness (BioKinetic Energy). From this assessment we can determine where the priorities are for optimization.
HARD WORK AND BKE – A WINNING COMBINATION
“Thank you Dave for helping me get through the Crossfit 2017 Open. I’m pretty sure my body would have crumbled if it weren’t for you. BKE is awesome stuff! Thanks so much!” -Nicole N
THE RIGHT KEY UNLOCKS THE DOOR TO SUCCESS
It’s Good to Be #1
Congratulations to BKE athlete Brooke Siter on using her new hip extension strength in the Kristie Phillips Cup in Charlotte, NC to help stick her landings on floor for the first time, winning the floor event, qualifying for USAG Elite, and being invited to the Olympic training center to work with the national team. Way to go Brooke!
ASSESSING SUPINATION
Have the athlete stand and reach with one leg out to the side, keeping the foot just off the ground. You may allow the athlete to gently tap their foot at the end reach, however, don’t allow her to distribute any weight onto the foot.
ALIGN YOUR ATLAS, UNLEASH YOUR POWER
Notice the difference in this athlete’s neck before and after a BKE Integration session. In the before, you can see a flatness to the neck. In the after, it has a nice curvature to it, or lordosis. His first cervical vertebrae, the atlas, was misaligned by being protracted, or forward.
WHAT MAKES YOU YOU
What makes you you?
Your are a combination of Biology (Nutrition, Physiology, Chemistry), Kinetics (Structure and Movement), and Energy (Electrical, Mental, Emotional, Beliefs, Relationships, etc). Anything that affects one of these three areas will affect the others.
THINK ROTATION
A lot of standard training takes place in the sagittal plane. However, when we move in sports, and even in regular gait, we are relying heavily on rotational movement.
Check out how we were able to improve this athlete’s foot and ankle rotation in one session! The small pics are of the push-off phase in gait, before and after.